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Tuesday, 3 September 2013

FBI declares Nigerian Wanted over $770,000 Internet Love Scam

Olaniyi Victor Makinde, a 26 year old serial
internet fraudster is top on the wanted list of the United States of America’s
Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI. Makinde has been arrested by the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Trouble started for Makinde when investigations
revealed that he had been defrauding several foreigners, especially Americans
in marriage scam and related offences, through the internet. He was also
accused of masterminding serious hacking practices against an American online
pay roll services company, Intuit, in California.

A source in FBI had hinted iReports-ng that
Makinde who is also known as Olaniyi Jones and Andrea Bradley was wanted by the
San Francisco Division of the FBI. According to the source, the US government
viewed the activities of Makinde seriously and as such had to send three FBI
agents including a supervisory special agent and two special agents, to Nigeria
last quarter to meet with their Nigerian counterparts over the arrest of the
fraudster. The fraudster was eventually arrested on September 6 last year.

iReports-ng learnt that the FBI agents were
also joined by another official of the US consulate Lagos to obtain statements
from Makinde when he was eventually arrested by EFCC operatives ahead of their
request for his extradition to the US to face trial with some of his American
accomplices in the serial fraud. The Nigerian authorities were said to have
reached an agreement with the FBI agents to prosecute Makinde in Nigeria before
considering handing him over to the US government. He was said to have been
arraigned before a high court judge in Akure on November 26 last year over a
$620,225.04 fraud and later remanded at a prison custody in the state capital.

It was however drama galore on Tuesday,
January 11, when the 26-year old internet fraudster already in custody at the
Olokuta medium prison, Akure, was docked again by EFCC, over a fresh $150,000
scam.

Makinde is a fresh graduate of the University
of Ado Ekiti where he graduated with second class honours in Economics from
UNAD.